Jury Gives Man 90 Years For Murder

YORK — A York County jury recommended a total sentence of 90 years and 10 months behind bars Tuesday for Brian Green, who was convicted Monday of charges including first-degree murder.

Green, 40, was convicted of murdering 29-year-old Cleveland Hill, who was having an affair with Green's estranged wife, Shenice Singleton-Green.

According to testimony at the four-day trial, Green stabbed Hill more than 20 times at the Ramada Inn 1776 on Aug. 2, 2006, leaving him to die near the hotel's lobby. During the struggle, he also stabbed Charles Rottkamp - a Ramada manager who tried to help Hill - in the left arm, chest and back, and stabbed Singleton-Green in the leg.

The jury deliberated for 21/2 hours before recommending 70 years in prison on the first-degree murder charge, 20 years in prison on a malicious wounding charge for the stabbing of Rottkamp, nine months in jail on an unlawful wounding charge for the stabbing of Singleton-Green, and one month for violating a protective order Singleton-Green had taken out against him.

Green is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 7. The judge cannot exceed the jury's recommendation, but he can reduce or suspend prison time, as well as decide whether the sentences run concurrently or consecutively.

After the conclusion of court proceedings Tuesday, Ronald Parker, Hill's uncle, said the verdicts brought some sense of closure and relief, but that painful memories of the attack continue for the family.

"That's something we're going to have to deal with the rest of our lives," he said.